Release Date: 19 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028947658382
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten (Modern Ensemble)
Description
‘Soundtrack’ of Heiner Goebbels’ massive music theatre piece, “Landscape With Distant Relatives” – ‘an opera in the full sense of the term’ - recorded at Paris’s Festival d’Automne, incorporating texts by Gertrude Stein, Giordano Bruno, Henri Michaux, T.S. Eliot and Nicolas Poussin, and drawing on the services of actor-speaker David Bennett, baritone Georg Nigl, 16 further singers and 19 instrumentalists. The non-linear storyline embraces the ambiguous relationship between art and reality and the nature of political conflict. “The consistently gripping score runs the gamut of styles from Renaissance tonal tapestry (incorporating early instruments) to teeth-baring aggression – including an army of drummers raising merry hell.” (Rob Cowan, The Independent)
Tracklisting
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Nicolas Masson; Colin Vallon; Patrice Moret; Lionel Friedli
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels, Ensemble Modern & Joseph Bierbichler
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels
Heiner Goebbels
